Here, I suppose I'm meant to write where I was born and what my parents did. Well, as it happens I wasn't brought up in a musical family, or an activist family and my parents weren't hippies. As a child I was able to learn music - first recorder, then flute, then piano, then singing; I was in the school choirs too. I was also very much aware of other life forms on our planet. I enjoyed gardening and I became vegetarian and subscribed to animal rights magazines. As I teenager I would write to embassies about whaling and I'd send postcards to governments to stand against people eating cats and dogs.

As I young adult I gained a degree in Environmental Science and then Human Nutrition even though I always wanted to make music and sing I didn't know yet what I was going to sing. Eventually my first song came, called Millennium Woman. I thought, well this is it, people are going to see who I am now. I gave my CD to the Radio 1 DJs and waited for them to play it on the radio.

Anyway, I kept going, making songs about the things I wanted to write songs about until I came across the extinction symbol on Twitter, now X. I thought it was the best idea I had ever seen, a new symbol for our times. Having studied ecosystems and as all doomers understand, humans need ecosystems to survive, it's not all powered by magic. Our world's made of interconnected natural systems which have developed over millions of years and which will fail under certain conditions. Every day that passes we are getting closer to that point, not further away.

So after the extinction symbol experience I decided that all of my music would be music with a message, as opposed to love songs. I even came up with a name for this new genre, I call it ecotronica. So, on that note here is one of my ecotronic songs; this one is to raise awareness of the Taiji dolphin hunt and all dolphin hunts, in fact all caged animals.

Empty the tanks.

This song's called 'Free'.